5. Courtney Stanford killed in a car crash
At 8:33 am near North Carolina on a Thursday of April 2014, there had been a Facebook status update in the profile of Courtney Stanford, a 32-year old. It was seconds later to this status update, that her car came to a head-on collision with a recycling truck and burst into flames, and this explosion threw the truck off the road, and Ms Stanford lost her life.
The Police reported that there was no presence of drugs or alcohol in the car, and the accident was largely due to the carelessness of the driver who was texting on her mobile instead of paying full attention on the road. Her status update said “The Happy song (by Pharrel Williams) makes me so Happy!”, but the police shared that if sharing happiness on the social media while driving could snatch someone’s life, it is not worth it.